Bill’s Spanish Civil War Chronology

March 23, 2015
Bill’s Spanish Civil War Chronology

This chronology is from some letters Bill wrote to Lee Burke and Wally Dent of the Veterans of the International Brigades, MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion of Canada.   The following dates are approx. correct and are from a very incomplete diary I tried to keep while in the Basque country. July 19. 5pm Ar. Portugalete. Outer Harbor … Read More

Tougher than Jack London

March 23, 2015
Tougher than Jack London

The following is a story Bill tells about hopping freight from Halifax to Sioux Lookout on his way to join the Relief Camp Workers in BC. It is an excerpt from an interview Bill Williamson did with the London Imperial War Museum in the early 1990’s. Anyways, the upshot was I was going west to … Read More